Thursday, Apr 24, 2008
Has the Credit Crunch hit Blair too?
News.com.au: Blair caught on train without ticket
FORMER British prime minister Tony Blair has been caught travelling on a train without a ticket or any cash to pay the fare.
Posted by lvmreader @ 01:30 PM (1197 views) Add Comment
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1. japanese uncle said...
Of course he was fully expecting the freebee treatment. Almost reaching pathological stage, certainly.
2. bidin'matime said...
Why didn't we see this on the BBC? The man lives (and always has lived) in a dream world, where he is above mere mortals. He may not think he has to pay now, but hopefully the day will come...
3. renting2 said...
One has to pay does one ................. ? Where's my security bod? I'm sure he's got a bit of .... what's that stuff ? ......... oh yeah ........... cash handy.
4. crash n burn said...
Maybe he couldn't afford it after Sterling's demise.
5. cornishman said...
""One of the policemen travelling with him offered to pay for the ticket, but the ticket inspector said it wasn't necessary.''
- wasn't necessary? Why's that then?
6. Soundman74 said...
If it wasn't necessary to pay for the ticket why did the inspector even ask to see it? stupid story really.
7. paul said...
Why does it take an Australian newspaper to reveal this story about an British ex-PM, living in Britain, travelling on a British train, breaking a British law?
This is so depressing - it makes you only guess about the grip the government has on the media.
8. Mrmickey said...
Don't know how he managed to get that far there are Gestapo type guards all over the railway system checking your travel documents before you even get anywhere near a train.
9. d'oh said...
Why wasn't he fined like anyone else. Disgusting!
10. pendulum said...
whad'ya know... get now, pay later... leading by example
11. jack c said...
His wife didnt get away with it and it was reported on the BBC ! - news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/597781.stm
"The £10 penalty fare paid by Cherie Blair for travelling on a train to Luton without a ticket, puts the prime minister's wife in remarkably distinguished company"
12. cornishman said...
@ jack c
Good on the inspector!
But fancy waking up next to:
13. Flash_2007 said...
Maybe he just had to reset the deals on his BTL's and is a bit short of cash.
14. Orwell said...
March him to a cashpoint!
15. inbreda said...
Maybe he's trying to get arrested so that he can go to prison and wake up to something less scary than his wife?
16. paul said...
cornishman, very good.
You are harsh .... but fair!
17. Ymugenzi said...
Just to inform British people that Tony Blair is also working as personal advisor to the Rwandan president Paul Kagame a dictator who has killed more than 5 million people in central Africa. So it would not surprise me if he is now dogging train maybe that's what the Rwandan president has thought him as well!!
18. Rental John said...
Maybe he thought he was on his usual gravy train!
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42433000/jpg/_42433150_blair_trainpa.jpg
Money!....oh no, never touch the stuff...you don't know where's it's been!
19. last_days_of_disco said...
@cornishman
Isn't that the cover from Raold Dahl's book witches, oh, its a real picture, oh my gosh...
20. Jimmy_joe said...
Why should it be illegal to travel on a train without a ticket? I'm sick of my tax money being spent subsidising corporate profits! At most it should be a trespass offence and the perpetrator should be asked to leave the property at the earliest opportunity. That would see me to work for free every day ;-)
21. Simplysam said...
or may be it is another back door publicity scan/spin to get back into the news. I am sure he will say he is sorry and everything will be honky dory